The following are five tips that will help you to prepare your Western MA home for sale so that you can sell your home quickly and for the most money.
Working to get your home ship-shape for showings will increase its value and shorten your sales time. Read
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Believe it or not, people open and explore every inch of a home for sale in Western Massachusetts and storage COUNTS.
Buyers who tour your Western MA home for sale will be opening every cabinet and closet to assess if the home holds enough storage for all of their stuff.
It may seem a bit overboard, but staging your storage spaces will make a better impression with the buyers.
Take the time to empty out pantries, linen closets and clothes closets and place items back in with an editorial eye. Pretend you are setting up a closet for a retail store, only in your case it is the closet that is for sale, not the stuff inside!
You may want to consider storing some of what was in the closet and only placing essential items back inside so that the storage area seems more spacious.
Make sure that the doors and drawers to storage areas can open easily with no fear of items falling out or blocking use.
Food pantries are not exempt from organization. To take it one step further, a clean and well organized refrigerator is a big, help, too. Yes, buyers will even open the refrigerator while on a home tour!
If you are considering selling your Western MA home, please get in touch with me for a free consultation:
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Knowing what appeals to today’s homebuyers, and considering those trends when you remodel, can pay off years from now when you sell your home. Read
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Whether the weather is cooperating or not, Spring is here and with that season of renewal comes thoughts of making a move in Western MA or beyond.It can take several weeks or more to prep your Western MA home for sale, so you need to get a jump on the checklist if you are going to be ready to hit the market this Spring.
We are actually experiencing a shortage of homes for sale in Western MA so if you are considering making a move, you should get in touch with me right away to get the ball rolling! Getting on the market ahead of the crowd means less competition for you!
According to Laura Gaskill on Houzz your order of operations is this:
First steps:
Your first step in getting your Western MA home ready to sell should be to get in touch with me. I will make a no obligation visit to your home to discuss what changes and improvements can be made to get the most out of your sale. Often these are simple and not very expensive improvements, but they can take some time, so we should meet before you think you are going to go on the market.
For more tips from the Houzz article, see below.
If you are considering making a home improvement to your Western MA home, you may wonder what that improvement will do to the bottom line of your home’s value.
Some renovations make a bigger impact than others and it is smart to know an estimate of the value before making the investment. Even if you aren’t thinking of selling your Western MA home now, it makes sense to keep up to date on market values.
I have access to a tool that can calculate a reliable figure for most common home improvements.
“Hanley Wood, a provider of housing development market data, is the source of the home improvement data that supports (the) “Refine Value Based on Home Improvement”. Hanley Wood is known for collecting and aggregating residential and commercial construction data, and for publishing magazines such as Remodeling.
The home improvement data are produced at a regional level, and refactored at the ZIP code level for the most accurate results. The data are updated annually.”
The tool supports improvements from window replacements, decks, kitchen renovations and even additions.
Lesley Lambert, Western MA REALTOR with Park Square Realty 413-575-3611
